Critical commentary by Alessandra Santin:

"The fluid compositions dance together with the reader's gaze. The guidelines are always soft, unexpected, removed from structural rules and proportional relationships. For this reason, enjoyment overwhelms the viewer, involving them in the game of presences and absences, full boundaries and voids, possible relationships and dreamlike suggestions, sometimes absurd, often impossible.

Massimiliana Sonego can attribute a universal value to objects from her own history because the events she speaks of have an epiphanic course. Some memories shine above others for a 'different' superiority, which is both immediate and already ancient. Remembering is not understanding but revisiting past moments as experiences in themselves. All this becomes a true and always new visitation.

The objects present in flight confirm the Bergsonian hypothesis of memory as a "centrifugal process," which does not unify but decomposes. Each presence wants to be a never-fixed condition in interpretation and understanding, susceptible to continuous reinterpretations. The works of Massimiliana Sonego reveal a disappeared reality but capable of new infinite emergences, in an elsewhere constantly renewed. The same exhibition setup, with an installation character, induces a strong emotional experience, of penetration into a fluid, labyrinthine place, always different from itself, interrogative, unstable, alive, and therefore pulsating with life, destined for the present and elsewhere. Each work, as well as the exhibition in its complexity and entirety, represents for Massimiliana Sonego the possibility of seeking and offering a sense of memory and its deceptions, of the symbolic enigma of experienced time."

(from the exhibition catalog Memorie Altrove, 2015)